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It's Over 9000!

Dragon Ball FighterZ is a match made in heaven. It's that rare licensed game that comes from the marriage of a developer and franchise who are perfect for each other. What Rocksteady did for Batman, what Rare did for James Bond and what BioWare did for Star Wars, Japanese studio Arc System Works has done for Dragon Ball. The result is an exciting, exuberant and surprisingly rewarding brawler that's one of the best fighting games I've played, and it's not just for genre enthusiasts either.

The first thing that strikes you is just how gorgeous the game looks. This is a 3D game played from a 2D perspective, but the characters, effects and stages are so wonderfully realised that you'd be forgiven for mistaking the video game for the anime upon which it's based. That doesn't even go far enough: Dragon Ball FighterZ at times looks better than the anime.

The story mode in all of the DBZ games always seems to do the franchise justice. Personally, I've only had a few fights in the demo (before becoming obliterated), and it's pretty fun.

The story mode is supposed to be pretty dope.

Dragon Ball FighterZ Story Mode Is Surprisingly Good

by Mike Fahey

Dragon Ball FighterZ is out today, spawning countless brutal online battles between players eager to rise to the top of the leaderboards. But fret not, multiplayer-phobic fighting game fans—the game’s lengthy and demanding story mode is an excellent way to delay the inevitable multiplayer beat-down.

Rather than rehash familiar storylines as countless Dragon Ball games before it, FighterZ features an original story centered around an all-new character. Clones of the series’ most powerful fighters rampage across the planet, and a mysterious energy leaves the originals powerless to stop them. In the first of three story arcs, the player is cast as a disembodied soul that finds itself inhabiting the body of pointy-haired protagonist Goku.